Game



June 1.5-, 19H26.

' v l... R. BOYD E-r AL GAME Filed Nov. 2. 1925 ffy-.

INVENToRs,

ATTORNEY Patented June 15, 1926.

i UNITED STATES LEoRA R. EoYn, or Los ANGELES, AND MARIE M. ooREY, E ALHAMBRA, CALIFORNIA.

PATENT oFFICE.

GAME.

Application filed November 2, 1925. Serial No. 66,302.

This invention relates to games and has for an object to provide a game device which is simple, substantial, inexpensive and provides for innocent amusement.

Another object is to provide a box simulating a head and to provide for the Vissue of game pieces apparently from the mouth lines of the head. Another object is to provide a tongue part for controlling the issue of the pieces from the head chamber.

Gther objects and advantagesv will be manifest in the following specification of apparatus of the invention as here illustrated; it being understood that modification, variation and adaptation may be resorted to Within the spirit of the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective of an embodiment of the invention.

Figure 2 is a front or mouth View.

Figure 3 is a section on line 3-3 of The device comprises a generally flat box with similar' cheek forming sides 2 having prominently projecting nose and chin portiens 3-l between which is a set back mouth line 5. At the back of the head is a neck nape part 6.

The head may be 'provided with any suitable head gear or dress as a cap 7 Which is cut integrally With the stock cardboard of which the cheeks are cut.

The sides of the top of the box converge as shown in Fig. 2 and the edges are held yieldingly closed by any suitable means, as

fasteners 8, so spaced as to allow the inser-V tion of a cover or leaves of a book B of index number answers.- This enables the packing of the book in association with the head for safe keeping. The book can be placed astraddle one of the top edges of a side oi. the head part with a portion in the crevice C and pushed in until the backbone of the book stops against the edge in which position it will be rictionally gripped byl the resilient stock.

Between the 'cheeks 2 is provided a magazine 10 having a top 11 and a bottom 12 connected by a front throat. 13 having a mouth lil somewhat larger than a game ball 15 of Which a set of any Suitable num-k ber is employed. Y

On the inside ont the mouth is a tongue 17 having a root 18 guided in slots 19 in the throat .IOIl 13, The lower end of the root 18 is extended down through the front end of the bottom 12 so that the tongue can be pushed up and down to close or uncover the mout-h for the escape of a ball.

Each of the balls has an index number different from the others and in the answer book B is a numbered paragraph or poem giving the fortune ot' the drawer of the respectively numbered ball or piece l5.

In playing the game, the balls are placel ,y

in the magazine, the tongue closed over the mouth, and the head shaken to mix the balls. The tongue is then pulled open and a single ball issued to a participant in the game, and so on to all of the players. Then the leader (preferably masked to correspond I Thecheek, neck and head decoration are" all cut in a one-piece dat blank and folded on corner lines L-L. The parts 11, 12 and 13 are all cut in another one-piece blank providing marginal flaps 2O to be glued against the near cheeks. The tongue 17 has' side shoulders 17'a to act asopening stops.

It Will be seen that they fortune book is held in al compartment entirely separatel fromthe ball magazineso that the box can be passed from player to player While the leader retains the book. The boxserves for the safe keeping and association ofthe balls and the bookwhen not in use.

vThat is claimed is V l. A game box having a magazine for game pieces; said box being formed of resilient side Walls having registering edges brought together and secured at spaced points and forming a spring-edged crevice to receive and removably retain a portion of the game book of the ganne..y

, 2; A fortune telling game comprising a book of indexed fortunes, a set of indexed players` pieces, and a seer or characteristic lfigure shaped box including a magazine for 

